The Academy Announces Oscar Contenders In Nine Categories

The Oscars may not have a host, but they’re edging closer to their list of nominees. The Academy just dropped all of its shortlists at once, narrowing the list of contenders in nine categories from foreign-language film, documentary feature, music, and more. In the past, these lists have been announced individually throughout December, but the Academy has streamlined their voting schedule this year allowing for one big announcement. Going forward, voters will use these lists to select the official nominees.

Here’s the full list of contenders for these nine categories:

Documentary Feature

Charm City

Communion

Crime + Punishment

Dark Money

The Distant Barking of Dogs

Free Solo

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Minding the Gap

Of Fathers and Sons

On Her Shoulders

RBG

Shirkers

The Silence of Others

Three Identical Strangers

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Documentary Short Subject

Black Sheep

End Game

Lifeboat

Los Comandos

My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes

A Night at the Garden

Period. End of Sentence.

’63 Boycott

Women of the Gulag

Zion

Foreign Language Film

Colombia, Birds of Passage

Denmark, The Guilty

Germany, Never Look Away

Japan, Shoplifters

Kazakhstan, Ayka

Lebanon, Capernaum

Mexico, Roma

Poland, Cold War

South Korea, Burning

Makeup and Hairstyling

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

Border

Mary Queen of Scots

Stan & Ollie

Suspiria

Vice

Music (Original Score)

Annihilation

Avengers: Infinity War

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Black Panther

BlacKkKlansman

Crazy Rich Asians

The Death of Stalin

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

First Man

If Beale Street Could Talk

Isle of Dogs

Mary Poppins Returns

A Quiet Place

Ready Player One

Vice

Music (Original Song)

“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

“Treasure” - Beautiful Boy

“All The Stars” - Black Panther

“Revelation” - Boy Erased

“Girl In The Movies” - Dumplin’

“We Won’t Move” - The Hate U Give

“The Place Where Lost Things Go” - Mary Poppins Returns

“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” - Mary Poppins Returns

“Keep Reachin’” - Quincy

“I’ll Fight” - RBG

“A Place Called Slaughter Race” - Ralph Breaks the Internet

“OYAHYTT” - Sorry to Bother You

“Shallow” - A Star Is Born

“Suspirium” - Suspiria

“The Big Unknown” - Widows

Short Film(Animated)

Age of Sail

Animal Behaviour

Bao

Bilby

Bird Karma

Late Afternoon

Lost & Found

One Small Step

Pépé le Morse

Weekends

Short Film (Live Action)

Caroline

Chuchotage

Detainment

Fauve

Icare

Marguerite

May Day

Mother

Skin

Wale

Visual Effects

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Avengers: Infinity War

Black Panther

Christopher Robin

First Man

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Mary Poppins Returns

Ready Player One

Solo: A Star Wars Story

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The final nominations will be announced on January 22nd, and the 91st annual Academy Awards will air on Sunday, February 24th. In the meantime, hit the comments with your speculations on which of these films will make the final cut and who will take home the gold.

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